Blogads: Who Reads and Who Writes

Blogads has the results of a reader survey.

It all seems pretty predictable to me, except:

6. Politically, you are:
Apolitical = 2.6%
Democrat = 39.3%
Republican = 27.3%
Libertarian = 7.7%
Independent = 19%
Green = 4%

Recently, news of the blogosphere has been dominated by RatherGate, Eason Jordan, and other conservative bloggers holding public figures to account for what they do and say.

I was surprised to see that almost 40% responded that they were Democrats.

Possibly the Libertarians and the Independents are subtracting from the Republican total. Maybe Democrats have more time to answer surveys than Republicans.

As I scanned through the rest of the results, I found this:

13. Do you have your own blog?
Yes = 20.7%
No = 79.3%

Most of the participants in the blogosphere don't convey their opinions; instead, they read other's opinions. So 20% of the participants are influencing 100% of the opinions.

Since the survey wasn't intended to do a political analysis, we don't have the number of people who have blogs and their political affiliation, but I am willing to bet that there are more conservatives in that 20% number than there are liberals.